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Boone County Community Foundation

Solicit funds from community members who wish to provide financial assistance to charitable organizations and activities in the boone county community.

$289k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$138k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Environment$549kHuman Services$131kFood & Nutrition$41kArts & Culture$29kHealth$12kHousing & Shelter$10kReligion$9kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $59k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $218k
$48,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALL DONATIONS LESS THAN 5000$138,198
BOONE COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT$79,789
BELVIDERE PARK DISTRICT$48,500
PARKSIDE MANOR$10,000
BOONE COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Family Councilling: $7k → 15%Boone Cty Coun Aging: $13k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 5 repeat orgs$133k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$1.0M
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+52%

Still filing today

60%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterArts & CultureHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • BC
    Boone County Conservation District
    6× · 2018–2024 · $549k
  • AD
    ALL DONATIONS LESS THAN 5000
    4× · 2021–2024 · $363k
  • BF
    BELVIDERE FAMILY YMCA
    2× · 2020–2021 · $36k · revenue -9%

Funded once

  • BC
    BOONE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGINGgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +74%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC
    one grant, 2020 · $11k · revenue -21%
  • ZE
    ZION EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $9k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Boone County Senior Services Inc

To promote independence and provide enriching opportunities for older adults in boone county.

Human Services
2
Boone County Special Services Inc

Services for the developmentally disabled

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3
Boone Area Chamber of Commerce

To enhance the economic vitality and quality of life in boone county

Community Improvement
4
Boone County Independent Living Inc

Housing and other services provided to developmentally disabled individuals to promote their ability to function as independently as possible.

Human Services
5
Brooke County Committee On Aging

The purpose of the brooke county committee on aging is to promote services that will enhance the health, safety, and welfare of the senior population in its planning and service area, and serve as the primary agency within the local…

Human Services
6
Cornerstone Services Inc

The organization seeks to provide residential services for disabled adults and children, as well as behavioral health, regular work and supported employment services for these disabled individuals. additionally, developmental training and…

Human Services
7
Knox Co Council On Aging

To provide services for senior citizens in knox county

—
8
Illinois Presbyterian Home

Operate homes for the aged and to conduct charitable and benevolent enterprises

Human Services
9
Ageguide Northeastern Illinois Area On Aging

We strive to make aging easier through the development of a network of services for older persons designed to optimize the quality of their lives.

Food & Nutrition
10
Family Health Center of Boone County

To provide access to primary medical, dental and mental health services for community members, with emphasis on the medically underserved, to improve the health of the community and to train future health care providers.

—
11
River Bend Transit

The agency provides transportation services for the elderly, disabled, and general public.

Public Benefit
12
Boone County Agricultural Association

Organize and operate the boone county fair

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Metropolitan Chicago Inc; the most unlike its peers is Boone County Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Boone County Conservation District: $549,338 · OtherBoone County Conservation DistrictALL DONATIONS LESS THAN 5000: $362,823 · OtherALL DONATIONS LESS THAN 5000BELVIDERE PARK DISTRICT: $48,500 · OtherBELVIDERE FAMILY YMCA: $36,064 · Other+5 more: $37,500 · OtherBOONE COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION: $34,000 · Food & NutritionBOONE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $13,420 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $10,601 · Human ServicesFAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES OF NO IL: $7,000 · Human ServicesBOONE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $28,600 · Arts & CulturePARKSIDE MANOR INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterEASTER SEALS METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $6,000 · Health
Other$1,034,225Food & Nutrition$34,000Human Services$31,021Arts & Culture$28,600Housing & Shelter$10,000Health$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBELVIDERE FAMILY YMCA: $36,064 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetBOONE COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION: $34,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetBOONE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $28,600 over 4y, 10% of budgetBOONE COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $13,420 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $10,601 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARKSIDE MANOR INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES OF NO IL: $7,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetREGIONAL ACCESS & MOBILIZATION PROJECT INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEASTER SEALS METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …Charities Aid Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of Northern ILIL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Northern IL · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Boone County Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Boone County Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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